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According to a new developer blog on the official EVE Online site, the migration of current DUST 514 players into the EVE universe will begin "after a slightly longer than usual scheduled downtime" on Thursday, January 10th. DUST players can be recruited into corporations and will appear in General chat as well.

Besides just chatting about the weather or sharing battle stories, we are also introducing the first component of higher level gameplay as part of Faction Warfare. DUST mercenaries can accept contracts offered by the NPC Faction Warfare miltias and fight to attack or defend them in the form of corporation battles. These come with the risk of losing a collateral payment of ISK, but a victory will secure a district on one of the many temperate planets in Faction Warfare space. The more districts a militia has control over the fewer victory points will be required for EVE Faction Warfare pilots to take ownership of the system.

Read more about the interaction between the two games on the EVE Online site.

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Whoa, wait a minute. Players will be doing FPS stuff instead of space combat? For some reason, that sounds far more interesting that flying a fighter ship.

It's a separate world. Players from eve can contract the players, but you can't really interact much. Supposedly there will be a system so that eve players can drop in with their ships and blow the crap out of people in Dust, but as of yet there is not information on if dust players can get out into the stars. As it stands it is pretty much a stand alone FTP FPS that totes, "limited" connectivity to the world of EVE.

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Whoa, wait a minute. Players will be doing FPS stuff instead of space combat? For some reason, that sounds far more interesting that flying a fighter ship.

It's a separate world. Players from eve can contract the players, but you can't really interact much. Supposedly there will be a system so that eve players can drop in with their ships and blow the crap out of people in Dust, but as of yet there is not information on if dust players can get out into the stars. As it stands it is pretty much a stand alone FTP FPS that totes, "limited" connectivity to the world of EVE.

It's limited compared to where CCP is headed with the link, but what is arriving is far more than just chat.

The DUST 514 mercenaries are fighting on the temperate planets in the Factional Warfare (FW) zones of EVE Online. More importantly, they can take contracts to fight for control of a district on a planet, which directly affects the balance of power in EVE Online when it comes to FW ownership of a system.

The interaction is even more up close and personal with the Tactical Strikes, where DUST 514 players coordinate with EVE Online players to "rain fire from the skies" in the form of a Tactical Strike. Beyond just communicating between two games, you now have actual combat interaction between the two games on two separate platforms.

Again, this is limited connectivity compared to where CCP is heading with the integration of the two games within the EVE Universe, but as a feature set, it's a really great technological step forward for cross-platform online gaming.

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This is a remarkable technological achievement. Two different games in two different platforms interacting with each other and making effective impact, it's especially interesting to see the effect on the EVE economy.

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Should have been for pc1 pc can handle this stuff better, there's reason Sony haven't released their own game planetside 2 on the ps32 you could dual account eve and dust and if you fancied taking part in the ground war, just temporarily switch games.3 you could still use your mumble or whatever chat with your corp regardless of if you're in eve or dust.4 would have sold more with eve players picking it up. I'm not sure eve players typically also own ps3s.

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I don't know why there's so much hate towards Dust514. Just grab your PS3, connect a keyboard and a mouse via USB and happily start shooting stuff. You don't need to play it with an effing controller.

Additionally, the PS3 makes Dust514 very resiliant to hacks and cheats, which I happily live with instead of playing any other FPS on the PC, where hacks and cheats are mandatory to even have the slightest chance.